In this week’s episode on the 3rd Sunday of Advent, Zac shares a raw and vulnerable story of wrestling with doubt in the silence of a seminary chapel—only to discover that God’s abiding Presence can pierce even the deepest darkness. Through the Gospel scene of John the Baptist in prison, in Matthew 11: 2-11, we learn that God’s silence is never His absence, and that true freedom comes from a hope the world cannot chain. Jesus reveals His presence through His works, especially in the Eucharist, and invites us to become living witnesses of His love in our own Nazareths. In moments of faith and in moments of desolation, the abiding Presence of God remains the unchanging Light at the center of our lives.

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Reflection Questions:

1. When have you experienced God’s silence and assumed it meant His absence?
2. What “prisons” in your life—doubts, fears, habits, circumstances—seem to confine you right now?
3. How might God already be abiding with you inside those very places?

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Here is the link to the meditation for you to bring into personal prayer and read over again on your own time.

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Intro music: "My Life (Main)” by Good B Music

Meditation Music: Reawaken Hymns Worship Pads - foundations in the key of A